[BRLTTY] BRLTTY Digest, Vol 9, Issue 120
Siju Samuel
sijusamueltech at gmail.com
Fri Jun 14 17:50:27 EDT 2013
Thank you all for your responses. This will be only the application which
is
accessible to the user in the computer. This already has the text to speech
capability. So preferably looking for adding just the capability to
interact with a refreshable braille. I will start looking at suggested
options and will get back.
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> 1. Interacting with common braille-refreshable-display devices
> : General clarification (Siju Samuel)
> 2. Re: Interacting with common braille-refreshable-display
> devices : General clarification (Samuel Thibault)
> 3. Re: Interacting with common braille-refreshable-display
> devices : General clarification (Lee Maschmeyer)
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> Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 17:51:46 -0500
> From: Siju Samuel <sijusamueltech at gmail.com>
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> Subject: [BRLTTY] Interacting with common braille-refreshable-display
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> Sir,
>
> I am trying to enhance a software with some limited accessibility features.
> I would like to programmatically achieve
>
> 1) Convert english/foreign language sentences to Braille-text and show on
> common Braille-refreshable-devices.
> 2) Capture actions and text from Braille-refreshable-device by the user.
> 3) No other extensive capabilities are required as provided by JAWS, ORCA
> NVDA etc.
> Note that display, speech, menu-navigation etc are not required.
> 4) Need to do it mainly from a windows system and optionally from a Linux
> system
> 5) Programming language preference is c or c++
>
>
>
> Can you please suggest whether using BrlAPI is the right way to go. What
> are the options I should looks for to get the above task done. I would be
> grateful for any help and direction.
>
> Thanks & Regards,
> Siju Samuel
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> Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 01:08:21 +0200
> From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org>
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> Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] Interacting with common
> braille-refreshable-display devices : General clarification
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> Hello,
>
> Siju Samuel, le Thu 13 Jun 2013 17:51:46 -0500, a ?crit :
> > 1) Convert english/foreign language sentences to Braille-text
>
> You can use liblouis for that.
>
> > and show on common Braille-refreshable-devices.?
> > 2) Capture actions and text from Braille-refreshable-device by the user.?
> > 4) Need to do it mainly from a windows system and optionally from a Linux
> > system?
> > 5) Programming language preference is c or c++
> >
> > Can you please suggest whether using BrlAPI is the right way to go.
>
> It definitely is the right way to go.
>
> Samuel
>
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> Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 20:02:38 -0400
> From: "Lee Maschmeyer" <leemer1 at comcast.net>
> To: "Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY."
> <brltty at mielke.cc>
> Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] Interacting with common
> braille-refreshable-display devices : General clarification
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> Hello Siju Samuel,
>
> There is a class of programs called "screen readers." These programs
> attempt
> to read screens. In an ideal world they would be able to read all screens,
> but in this area even more than most others we are far from an ideal world.
> If your program uses reasonably standard controls with reasonably standard
> user interactions there's a good chance one or more existing screen readers
> might be able to use it with little or no effort on your part.
>
> In trying to get information about this stuff you may run into
> parochialism.
> Linux users don't like Windows. Window Eyes users don't like Jaws.
>
> There are open source programs available on both Windows and Linux. BRLTTY
> is the main, but not the only, Linux braille program. NVDA (Non Visual
> Desktop Access) is open source access for Windows though I think there's at
> least one other though I could be wrong. Windows also has several
> commercial
> screen readers. All of these deal with the question, how will people get to
> your program in the first place. Rather than adding a bit of accessibility
> to your program it might be more efficient to see whether existing screen
> readers can already deal with it or whether the screen readers' developers
> might be willing to make any needed changes.
>
> Good luck,
>
> --
>
> Lee Maschmeyer
>
> "Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to
> others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what
> you
> had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise."
> --Lewis Carroll
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